Month: July 2018
The Parentations – Kate Mayfield
They aren’t even sure he’s still alive. They’d tossed around ideas about him so often and for so many years that they’d created a shared fantasy about the kind of man he might have become. …
The Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlist
So the Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist has been announced. It has seemed strange in the last few years that I haven’t done a ‘guessing the longlist’ post or video, as since I started Savidge …
West – Carys Davies
Granta, hardback, 2018, fiction, 160 pages, kindly sent by the publisher For a week he lay beneath his shelter and didn’t move. Everything was frozen, and when he couldn’t get his fire going he burned …
My Books of the Year So Far (And A Chance To Win Some of Them)
What you might need, or maybe like, in your life is (as part of us catching up) is to know what my books are so far this year and, possibly even better, win some of …
Whistle in the Dark – Emma Healey
The sun had sunk behind the building and all the previously golden edges were now grey. The relief Jen felt at seeing Lana again was turning into something else, and though she mostly wanted to …